The attack on Yugoslavia
constitutes the most brazen international aggression since the
Nazis attacked Poland to prevent "Polish atrocities" against Germans.
Walter J. Rockler, Former Prosecutor to Nurnberg war crimes trials, in a letter
to Chicago Tribune.

So you thought this war was about human rights?

"If we're going to have a strong economic relationship that
includes our ability to sell around the world, Europe has got
to be a key.... That's what this Kosovo thing is all about."

U.S. President Bill Clinton in a speech delivered the day
before his televised address to the American people about
the crisis in Kosovo. Quoted in "The Case Against
Intervention in Kosovo", by Benjamin Schwarz and
Christopher Layne, The Nation Magazine, April 19, 1999
issue.

Chronicle of a non-advertised ethnic cleansing

''The nationalists have a two-point platform, first to establish what they call an ethnically clean Albanian
republic and then the merger with Albania to form a greater
Albania."

'We're not inflicting pain on these fuckers,' Clinton said, softly at
first. 'When people kill us, they should be killed in greater numbers.'
Then, with his face reddening, his voice rising, and his fist pounding his
thigh, he leaned into Tony [Lake, then his national security adviser], as
if it was his fault. 'I believe in killing people who try to hurt you.. And
I can't believe we're being pushed around by these two-bit pricks.'"

--Clinton ordering the bombing of civilian targets in Somalia, as quoted in
All Too Human, George Stephanopoulos

(from http://www.counterpunch.org)

Αn educational miracle

Mr Cook has
also assured us that he "knows" that the
Serbs executed 20 Albanian teachers in
front of their pupils in Goden. What he
does not appear to know is that Goden is a
village with just 200 inhabitants - yet, it
seems, with a teacher/pupil ratio beyond
even the fantasies of the NUT conference
fringe.

Mick Hume, editor of LM magazine, in the Times, April 15.

The relativity of time according to Prof. Albright

"I don't see this as a long-term operation. I think
that this is . . . achievable within a relatively
short period of time."
US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, March 24

"We never expected this
to be over quickly. The President himself has
said, 'This is not a 30-second commercial.'
We are in there for a long time."
US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, on "Meet the Press" a few days later
Both quotes by Richmond Times-Dispatch, Monday, April 19, 1999

At least, they died in good faith

"The pilot dropped the bomb in good faith, as you would expect of a trained
pilot from a democratic NATO country to do".
Jamie Shea, about the NATO bombing against a Kosovar refugees' convoy,
April 15.

Almost in rage?

The bombing campaign--15,000 bombs and missiles so far--is working,
says Germany's Gen. Klaus Naumann, NATO's senior military officer.
"We will see how they will feel after a few more weeks and months
or what have you of continuously pounding them into pieces."
Quoted in the Slate, 5/5/99

Tell me whom you consider as liberator...

An excerpt from a Kosovo Liberation Front page dedicated to
the history of Kosovo according to them:As Germany overtook Yugoslavia in 1941, the Kosovar people were liberated
by the Germans. All Albanian territories of this state, such as Kosova, western Macedonia
and border regions under Montenegro, were re-united into Albania proper. Albanian schools,
governmental administration, press and radio were re-established.
(See: http://www.klpm.org/question.htm)

Oppressed minority or nothing-balls?

When ethnic Albanian guerrillas originally rejected the peace settlement
fashioned by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, a friend told Newsweek
that "She's angry at everyone-- the Serbs, the Albanians and NATO." Rather
than question its own handiwork, another Clinton administration official
raged: "Here is the greatest nation on earth pleading with some
nothing-balls [the Albanians] to do something entirely in their own
interest-- which is to say yes to an interim agreement--and they defy us."
Quoted by Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute in article
Reinforcing Failure

Short on humanism

"I think no power to your
refrigerator, no gas to your stove, you can't get to work because the
bridge is down - the bridge on which you held your rock concerts -- and you
all stood with targets on your heads. That needs to disappear at 3 o'clock
in the morning.".

USAF Gen. Michael Short, quoted by the Observer in "Belgrade open for business as usual"
(May, 16)

Lapsus linguae

More incidents are virtually inevitable.
"This is war," said Maj. Gen. Charles Wald, the operations
director for the Joint Chiefs of Staff declared at the Pentagon
briefing.
NATO nations, however, insist that they are not waging a war
against Yugoslavia but are merely conducting a military
campaign to pressure the Milosevic to accept a settlement.
General Wald quickly realized his slip of the tongue.
"It's combat, as I said," he immediately corrected himself.

Quoted by Michael R. Gordon in the NYTimes article "NATO, Describing Village as Army Post, Admits Strike"
(May 16, 1999)

Those omniscient Yugoslavs

``The responsibility for that tragedy rests with the Serb forces who
rounded up those refugees from the hillside, forced them back to
Korisa and in particular forced those 100 refugees not to return to
their homes but to settle, squeezed together, in those two
compounds'' Robin Cook justifying the Korisa bombing, as quoted
by Reuters dispatch, May 17.
Million dollar question: How did the Serbs know where to place the human
shields? Is the Yugoslav Army omniscient or was it just a lucky guess
that NATO was going to hit Korise thinking it was a military command
post?

No comments

"We are not romantic people! We are the Sega generation"

NATO pilot replying to CNN reporter's question whether he had any qualms
about killing innocent civilians.

Justice according to US/NATO

"You're more likely to see the UN building dismantled brick-by-brick and
thrown into the Atlantic than to see NATO pilots go before a UN
tribunal" Rep. Lester Munson of the International Relations Committee,
quoted by the National Post in article "We'll never hand pilots to Arbour: U.S. official",
May 22.

Losing all sense of proportion

"Let us not lose sight of proportions in this debate (...) It's not often
remembered but over 50% of the refugees in Albania and the former
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia are under 18 years of age. Children,
or at least adolescents. 40% are under 14 years of age. 20,000 are
under one year old and at least 100,000 babies have been born since
this crisis in March in those refugee camps, without incubators, without
electricity, without medical support, without water, without a roof over
their heads, with absolutely nothing. (...) Otherwise I just
acknowledge that perhaps we have lost all sense of proportion in this
matter.
Jamie Shea, May 25, replying to a question about the plight of Serbian civilians, especially
in hospitals without electricity. Quoted in
transcript of NATO briefing. The emphasis on the preposterous number of 100,000
babies born in refugee camps within two months is ours. Indeed, Jamie Shea has
lost all sense of proportion (among other things).

Who pays the piper?

"As you know without the NATO countries there would be no International
Court of Justice, nor would there be any International Criminal Tribunal for
the former Yugoslavia because NATO countries are in the forefront of those
who have established there two tribunals, who fund these tribunals and who
support on a daily basis their activities".

Jamie Shea, replying to the question "what if NATO is brought before the
International Tribunal?", quoted by Justin Raimondo in his
Allied Farce diary. Raimondo "translates" aptly the quote: He who pays the piper
calls the tune.

Who said ethnic cleansing?

"There can be no return to the past, to the times when [Serbs]
were spreading cancer in the heart of Croatia, a cancer that
was destroying the Croatian national being...So it is as if they
have never lived here...They didn't even have time to take
with them their filthy money or their filthy underwear!"
Croatia President Franjo Tudjman, jubilating in Croatian radio after the
expulsion of Serbs from Krajina, quoted by Gregory Elich in
The Invasion of Serbian Krajina?